On Sat, Jul 26, 2003, Tim Peters wrote: > > Noting that someone on the Tutor list running a "personal firewall" kind of > program was disturbed because it reported that 2.3c1 IDLE was trying to > access the Internet at startup. They were concerned about why IDLE would be > reporting *anything* about them to another machine. > > I confess I had the same question when I first tried the new IDLE on > Win98SE, and ZoneAlarm raised an eyebrow. Of course I looked at the source > and saw then it was only talking to localhost, but for some reason it didn't > occur to me that anyone else might wonder about this too. > > It's obvious that gazillions of Windows users will wonder about it. If > anyone has an idea about where to put a reassuring explanation that a > panicky Windows user is likely to read, don't be shy. This is more code change than I'd like this late, but perhaps we should pop up a dialog the first time IDLE starts that stores a key in the registry when the user clicks OK. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ This is Python. We don't care much about theory, except where it intersects with useful practice. --Aahz
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